Dr.AddMedPHL said:Worth stating the units and the reference range whenever you post a number here.
Pushing back on Dr.AddMedPHL here. I think the framing smuggles in the conclusion. Ask it the other way round and the obvious answer reverses, which usually means the question is doing the work.
Dr.AddMedPHL said:Worth stating the units and the reference range whenever you post a number here.
Fair, and it stops being fair at the extremes. The middle of the range is well understood; the ends are where the honest answer is that nobody knows.
Happy to go further on any of that.
Dr.AddMedPHL said:Worth stating the units and the reference range whenever you post a number here.
Thank you — that is the clearest version of this I have read, and I have read a lot of them. Taking it to my next appointment.
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View ResultsAdding the clinical framing, because it changes how the question reads. If two explanations both fit, the useful question is which one predicts something the other does not. That is answerable; arguing about which sounds more plausible is not.
Dr.PathRoch said:If two explanations both fit, the useful question is which one predicts something the other does not.
This is my experience too, for whatever a second data point is worth. I had assumed I was the exception until I read this.